Corporate Art Collections: A Handbook to Corporate Buying (Handbooks in International Art Business) - Hardcover

Charlotte Appleyard; James Salzmann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848220715 ISBN 13: 9781848220713

Publisher: Lund Humphries, 2012

Synopsis

This new volume in the series of Handbooks in International Art Business published in association with Sotheby's Institute of Art offers a timely guide to the history, nature and importance of corporate collecting and the different reasons for starting and maintaining corporate collections, including investment, cultural cachet, and asset diversification. Based on interviews with the curators, consultants and investors who run such collections, and more extended case studies of important collections, the book concludes with an examination of when corporate collecting becomes a liability and the market-impact of deaccessioning, looking ahead to the future of corporate collecting.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Appleyard is Head of Patrons and Keeper's House Launch at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She previously worked as Director of Development at Outset Contemporary Art Fund, and in the curatorial departments at The National Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has contributed pieces on art and visual culture to The Spectator, The Art Newspaper, Literary Review and Huffington Post. James Salzmann is a director of Gurr Johns Ltd, the international fine art advisory firm. He began his career in the arts in the silver and twentieth-century design departments of Sotheby's auction house, and has held strategic development positions there and at the contemporary auction firm of Phillips de Pury & Company.

Review:

'...insightful...packed with examples that are well presented and fascinating...very high quality images by wonderful artists...a showcase for those corporations that have created added value through collecting art.' -Patricia Frischer, San Diego Visual Arts Network, www.sdvisualarts.net

About this edition

• Publisher: Lund Humphries
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1848220715
• ISBN 13: 9781848220713
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160